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Build a dorm, burn the locker rm. upgrade the dome
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Sure do but Scoop was a damn good pg.Do you remember Dion Waiters?
Sure do but Scoop was a damn good pg.Do you remember Dion Waiters?
Dion was more a shooting guard and would have started on just about any team in the country.Sure do but Scoop was a damn good pg.
Defensive numbers are a little skewed with blocks.Not going to lie, I thought McLeod was worse than Bell. That’s a surprise to me.
STOP!It’s sad that it’s half over already. Feels like we’re just getting started.
We are going to have losses in the early part of the ACC. If they are not blow outs (or even if they are) our team can’t get down on themselves. I think Red will play a big part helping them keep confidence. He seems to be that kind of a coach. Then for the “easier” part of the schedule we just need to win win win. It would be fantastic if we could beat Carolina in the Dome, having learned from playing them in the Dean Dome and having the backing of a huge, loud crowd.When we hired Red, and I looked at our schedule for this year and how it would play out:
If you told me we'd be 10-3 (1-1) at this point in the season, I'd be thrilled.
If you told me we'd have no Q3/4 losses, I'd be thrilled.
If you told me I just would've enjoyed watching the games this season, I'd be thrilled.
Couldn't be happier with where we're at right now. There's things to work on, but I wasn't expecting what we've gotten so far.
That's why beating Pitt at home was so important in my opinion. This is a pretty young team and the next games are at Duke, v an improved BC, at UNC, at Pitt, and v Miami. I was afraid of a huge slide here, especially if we lost the first game which was a winnable home game, and then add in the loss to Virginia and it's a huge uphill battle that could devastate this team. The team should be feeling good heading into the gauntlet.We are going to have losses in the early part of the ACC. If they are not blow outs (or even if they are) our team can’t get down on themselves. I think Red will play a big part helping them keep confidence. He seems to be that kind of a coach. Then for the “easier” part of the schedule we just need to win win win. It would be fantastic if we could beat Carolina in the Dome, having learned from playing them in the Dean Dome and having the backing of a huge, loud crowd.
Maliq with steals and Naheem with blocks carrying our Hakeem Pct.You can see by these percentile ranks what Syracuse is good at and what they're not (98th would indicate that they're in the 98th percentile of D1 teams, likewise, a 12 indicates that they're in the 12th percentile of D1 teams).
They excel at getting steals, blocks and limiting personal fouls while doing so and scoring on the breaks. On the downside, they don't shoot threes a lot or well (which in combination is a good thing I'd guess. You don't want to be bad at shooting threes and shooting a lot of them) and they don't rebound well. (net rating in this is not the NET, it's just the measure of points for and points against).
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This isn't directed just at you, but I get tired of people going back to Dion to defend someone not starting and coming off the bench. This isn't the same team and there are many different things at play. I'm not suggesting that Red is wrong with what he's doing, but JT just isn't cutting it and if he doesn't start contributing more, he needs to come off the bench. I'm sure Red would rather have Benny start, but with what happened before, he's doing the right thing by forcing him to earn his spot back.Do you remember Dion Waiters?
I get it. But we need to play a lot of guys, we got tired of the short rotation with JAB. I don't think starting matters as much as getting the best minutes out of your rotation. I'd like to see this lineup, Starling, Mintz, Copeland, Maliq, and McLeod. It hasn't happened yet because there's no shooting. There's apparently only been two possessions where Maliq played with McLeod.This isn't directed just at you, but I get tired of people going back to Dion to defend someone not starting and coming off the bench. This isn't the same team and there are many different things at play. I'm not suggesting that Red is wrong with what he's doing, but JT just isn't cutting it and if he doesn't start contributing more, he needs to come off the bench. I'm sure Red would rather have Benny start, but with what happened before, he's doing the right thing by forcing him to earn his spot back.